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bum
noun- the buttocks; occasionally and specifically, the anus, the rectum UK, 1387
A good Middle English word that survived in conventional usage until the late C18. The etymology is very uncertain; possibly from Italian bum (the sound of an explosion), and it is suggested (elsewhere) that “bum” is echoic of buttocks slapping a flat surface. What is certain is that it is now in semi-conventional currency. It is not an abbreviation of BOTTOM - [S]he infuriated a number of men who thought that they should be able to rub her small breasts and round bum simply because she was an Indian. — Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers, p. 33, 1966
- Is she with you? he asked, looking at Paula in the background, the other bouncers staring at her bum and licking their lips. — John King, White Trash, p. 63, 2001
- a bag in which classified documents which are to be destroyed are placed US
- — Department of the Army, Staff Officer’s Guidebook, p. 57, 1986
- a lazy person; a beggar; a vagrant US, 1864
- a boaster, a braggart UK: SCOTLAND
- — Michael Munro, The Original Patter, p. 14, 1985
▶ give your bum an airing
to use the lavatory UK- Shan’t be a moment Florrie. Must just go and give me bum an airin’. — Beale, 1984
▶ on the bum- living as a beggar US, 1907
- (of machinery) not working, broken, not operating correctly CANADA, 1961
▶ take it up the bum
to take the passive role in anal intercourse UK- — Bodmin Dark, Dirty Cockney Rhyming Slang, p. 50, 2003
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